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Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  We need to give Mark Ruffalo’s veneers an academy award for supporting actor. Those things worked overtime. 

  It’s been a while since a movie left me feeling ambiguous and slightly bewildered. I’ll need to watch it a second time, but I ultimately felt the film’s interest in the quasi-manifest destiny plotline concerning the “creepers” was far underdeveloped compared to the much more intriguing story of the morality of duplicates and “one soul, one body.” Of course, the tonality was consistently…

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★ Watched 27 Feb 2025

  Make no mistake, on a craft and technical level, Conclave easily cements its place as a standout film in ‘24. Yet, its narrative’s predictably prevents itself of taking any higher spot in my mind of good, yet short of great. Should this be the fault of the film? After all, it’s based on a British novel, so conceptually it has to adhere to the novel’s plot. Nevertheless, I still don’t believe the film earns its ending, and subsequently, the “twist” of…

Popular reviews

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 24 Feb 2025

  Anora, with its unexpected narrative direction, is honestly the most surprising film I’ve seen in a while. The one-liners, character moments, and comedic yet welcomed lefty (especially from the merry band of Armenian babysitters) ground the story, making you empathize with Ani’s situation yet rightfully guffaw at the absurdity of the marriage license debacle. Mikey Madison is a star there’s no way around that fact, but I really need to shout out my boy Yuriy Borisov. The moment he slips…

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  Alien: Romulus 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Aug 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.